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9th Grade Georgia Standards of Excellence

Honors 9th Literature Week 2 Aug. 6-10

8/5/2018

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Planning Your Week
M 8/6: Bring your completed mini-me to class: Mini Me Character Strength STEAL  Continue to bring your autobiography, biography, or memoir to class. We will continue to work with it this week. This should be a print text–no ebooks, please. You should also have your work on the Prerequisite Vocabulary and Skills sheet; remember we will have a quiz over the words under “Writing Genres” and “Writing Skills” in a few weeks. Bring an independent reading text (print only, please) to class each day.
Th 8/30: ZINC 1st check (Remember, the goal is to learn words and increase your class and school rank. Top students will earn extra credit.) Use these directions: SpringBoard Instructions for First Time Login REV.


Monday, August 6
Opener: Establish group discussion norms and share your textual lineage with your group.
Work Session:
  1. Share mini-mes, focusing on VIA character strengths and textual lineage.
  2. Collaborate in groups to make a poster that represents your group’s top VIA strength.
Closer: Read from the independent reading text you selected and brought to class; reflect on the diction, imagery, syntax; make inferences about voice.
HOMEWORK: Read your independent reading text and work on ZINC vocabulary.


Tuesday, August 7
Opener: Establish clock buddies; review SOAPSTone and SMELL strategies for reading with “Making the Grade.”
Work Session:
  1. Present Mini Me posters to the class
  2. Practice SOAPStone or SMELL with your pre-course reading text; share responses with a clock buddy.
  3. Read the "cheating article" and practice with SMELL
Closer: Read independent reading text.
HOMEWORK: Read your independent reading text and work on ZINC vocabulary.


Wednesday, August 8
Opener: Assemble IAN with STEAL handouts, table of contents, and independent reading log.
Work Session:
  1. Preview Unit One: Coming of Age (self-assess learning targets).
  2. Discuss the New York Times article on "How and Why Students Cheat"; analyze SOAPStone elements
Closer: Read independent reading text.
HOMEWORK: Read your independent reading text and work on ZINC vocabulary.


Thursday, August 9
Opener:  Assess class mastery and place skills on the class stoplight to prioritize weaknesses.
Work Session:
  1. Review coming of age—brainstorm self-defining moments in your life and freewrite a narrative on one single moment using STEAL for characterization.
  2. Exchange with your 9 o’clock partner; mark/highlight elements of the STEAL method of characterization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHt8RjkFs98
  3. Review your partner’s assessment of your work and write a goal for yourself for narrative writing: “I need to improve my character development in writing by ________.”
Closer: Read independent reading text.
HOMEWORK: Read your independent reading text and work on ZINC vocabulary.


Friday, August 10
Opener: Review sensory details
Work Session:
  1. Respond to the pizza prompt (12 minutes); evaluate each group member’s writing, identifying tone and elements of voice.
  2. Exchange papers with a partner; analyze diction and imagery to determine voice and tone. Mark elements of STEAL your partner used to create a character.
  3. QHT on unit vocabulary
  4. Preview Unit 1 Embedded Assessment 1; brainstorm topics and potential interviewee's connected to those topics from summer reading. 
Closer: Summarize independent reading this week; write a short description of the narrator’s voice (in terms of diction, syntax, and imagery).
HOMEWORK: Read your independent reading text and work on ZINC vocabulary.
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